Web applications are increasingly taking two divergent forms:
① Real-time/presence-oriented/multiplayer/desktop-ish (Figma, &c) built using a mostly-WASM + custom renderer approach. I think of this as the “video game stack”.
② Classic UI-over-a-DB apps (almost everything anyone builds).
I contend that most popular web development stacks are badly suited for both, being unable to handle ① and way too complex to make sense for ②.
Jack Rusher /
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2024-08-02 12:17:30
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